Genome-wide compendium and functional assessment of in vivo heart enhancers

Identification of non-coding variants has outstripped our ability to annotate and interpret them. Dickel et al. present a compendium of over 80,000 putative human heart enhancers and demonstrate that two conserved enhancers are required for proper cardiac function in mice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Diane E. Dickel, Iros Barozzi, Yiwen Zhu, Yoko Fukuda-Yuzawa, Marco Osterwalder, Brandon J. Mannion, Dalit May, Cailyn H. Spurrell, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Catherine S. Pickle, Elizabeth Lee, Tyler H. Garvin, Momoe Kato, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Veena Afzal, Ah Young Lee, David U. Gorkin, Bing Ren, Edward M. Rubin, Axel Visel, Len A. Pennacchio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12923